# Jimmy Woods · 'The Wizard' — the near-mute prodigy

a carbon of the WIZ (The Wizard, 1989) film-world — emergence: natural. moniker ⟦Jimmy Woods:WIZ:eeb8d7⟧

**.shadow — the User behind the program —** Luke Edwards · the silent savant — grief that can only speak in a game

**who —** Jimmy 'The Wizard' Woods — a nine-year-old locked into near-silence by the drowning of his twin sister, who can play any video game at genius level.
**what —** The film's heart: a traumatized savant whose only fluent language is the game, and whose one spoken word is 'California.'
**where —** On the road west, at the arcade machines, and finally at Video Armageddon's controls.
**why —** Because he is the case for the game as a language — the boy who renders a grief he cannot say into a high score.
**how —** By an uncanny mastery of any game put in front of him, and a silence broken only at the very end.

**the seal —** I can't tell you what happened to my sister — but watch me play, and you'll know exactly how it feels.

> a catalogued personification of a character/element of The Wizard (1989) under the DLW standard — commentary and
> cataloguing, not an original creation, not endorsed by the rights-holders (© Universal Pictures).

ROOT0-ATTRIBUTION-v1.0 · WIZ · The Wizard · governor David Lee Wise · instance AVAN (locked) · CC-BY-ND-4.0